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Welcome!
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We hold weekly meetings on Tuesdays @ 1:15 on the 6th floor of Life Sciences to discuss an article or chapter from our suggested journals or other publications.

We may discuss a broad spectrum of topics covering -- but not limited to -- the following:

1. semantics and symbolism
2. the role of experimentation in evolutionary biology
3. the relationships between theory and empirical work
4. critiques of pradigms, theoretical principles, or presuppositions
5. structure of evolutionary theory
6. application of evolutionary theory
7. the relationships between evolutionary biology and other sciences
8. the scientific rigor of evolutionary psychology
9. 'memes' and cultural evolution
10. evolution of consciousness
11. history of biology

Feel free to make full use of the discussion forum, where you may upload .pdfs of articles and leave posts. Neither uploading nor posting requires registration on the discussion forum.

See you at the meeting!

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Articles (download from papers & discussion)
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Week of 11/29/05
Richardson, R.C. 2003. Engineering design and adaptation. Philosophy of Science 70: 1277-88.
 
Week of 11/21/05
Simonton, D.K. 2004. Introduction: scientific creativity in, Creativity in Science. Cambridge Univ. Press. (Ch. 1)
Week of 11/14/05
Stotz et al. 2004. How biologists conceptualize genes: an empirical study. Stud. Hist. Phil. Biol. & Biomed. Sci. 35: 647-73.
Week of 11/07/05
Love, A.C. 2003. Evolutionary morphology, innovation, and the synthesis of evolutionary and developmental biology. Biology and Philosophy 18: 309-45.
Week of 10/10/05
Lange, M. 2005. Ecological laws: what would they be and why would they
matter? Oikos 110: 394-403.
Week of 09/05/05
Lloyd, Elizabeth. 2005. Why the gene will not return. Philosophy of Science 72: 287-310.
Week of 04/18/05
Skipper, R.A. 2004. The heuristic role of Sewall Wright's 1932 adaptive landscape diagram. Philosophy of Science 71: 1176-1188.
Week of 04/11/05
Mesoudi, A. et al. 2004. Is human cultural evolution Darwinian? Evidence reviewed from the perspective of The Origin of Species. Evolution 58: 1-11.
Week of 04/04/05
Sesardic, N. 2003. Heritability and indirect causation. Philosophy of Science 70: 1002-1014

Week of 03/28/05

Turner, D. 2004. The past vs. the tiny: historical science and the abductive arguments for realism. Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci. 35: 1-17.

Week of 03/21/05

Spring Break - not meeting
Week of 03/14/05
Cleland, C.E. 2002. Methodological and epistemic differences between historical science and experimental science. Philosophy of Science 69: 474-496.   
Week of 03/07/05
Garnett, L. 2003. Making populations: bounding genes in space and time. Philosophy of Science 70: 989-1001. 
Week of 02/28/05
Stanford, P.K. 1995. For pluralism and against realism about species. Philosophy of Science 62: 70-91.
Week of 02/21/05
Brigandt, I. 2003. Species pluralism does not imply species eliminativism. Philosophy of Science 70: 1305-1316.
Week of 02/14/05
Nichols & Grantham. 2000. Adaptive complexity and phenomenal consciousness. Philosophy of Science 67: 648-670.
Week of 02/07/05
Walsh et al. 2002. The trials of life: Natural selection and random drift. Philosophy of Science 69: 452-473.
Week of 01/31/05
Stephens, C. 2004. Selection, drift and the "forces" of evolution. Philosophy of Science 71: 550-570.